TV Tropes meta thread

I thought it was the slow disappearance of characters from a work, a la the slow disappearance of the polar ice caps as a result of global warming.

All that Character Roster Global Warming did for me was remind me that Blizzard Entertainment is completely unable to design games without forcing the Holy Trinity into it, even to the detriment of game design.

Same. The actual meaning is almost the opposite of that, which confused me even more.

I sort of wish some of our answers were the actual definition now. They make more sense.

Gives me an idea for a forum game. "Define the above trope: Wrong Answers Only"

Someone should make that

& Ooh, I'm doing that rn.

EDIT: Did just that. Enjoy

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jun 8th 2022 at 5:26:06 AM

I've never made a forum game before, but I have thought of one.

"Trope/Character Association Game". Name a trope and the next character lists three characters from any work they associate with it.

There's not already a game like that is there?

Edited by GenericGuy2000 on Jun 8th 2022 at 9:04:52 AM

Not with three characters, but I swear there was a game where someone lists a trope and the next person mentions a character or work they associate with it

I was thinking about how common Deconstruction is on pages as a "badge of honor" trope, and I noticed Reconstruction has fewer examples on its pages than Deconstruction.

I personally find that sad—I love the Reconstruction trope, and I think it's a sign of how negative this wiki can be sometimes. That's not a knock on the wiki by the way—it's more a knock on tropers who use this wiki to be negative and complain.

Or perhaps deconstructions just happen more often in works than reconstructions. Like, I've seen the former for the Idle Game genre a few times in my life, but never the latter.

Edited by Piterpicher on Jun 9th 2022 at 2:21:37 PM

How do you Reconstruct the Idle Game genre anyways.

How does one Play With a genre even?

That could be true too. I just wonder if there's more Reconstructions than we have documented out there. I could be wrong though—I was just throwing it out there.

We do have Genre Deconstruction. And you'd be surprised with my ideas, which I'm currently saving for when I begin game development. Or I may tell my rough idea now if you want.

Edited by Piterpicher on Jun 9th 2022 at 2:30:59 PM

There's probably a Yack Fest for gamedevs somewhere

Unrelated, but today I learned I've been the OP author of 28 TRS threads.

Not bad at all. Especially if those are substantial.

> Unrelated, but today I learned I've been the OP author of 28 TRS threads.

How did you find that out?

I feel like we should have a list of "badge of honor" tropes. You know, Complete Monster, Magnificent Bastard, Deconstruction, Nightmare Fuel (technically not a trope but it counts), etc, etc. All the ones that people think make their favorite work sound cooler.

I have a list of all the TRS threads I started on my Tropers page. I replaced the bullets with numbers and found out.

That number may increase to 33 as well since I have 4 tropes in the TRS Queue and I'm wick checking Polygon Ceiling.

Also not really much of an observation, but it boggles the mind how some people manage to keep track of some threads and pages so much.

As someone who's a bit more of a casual user, it seems like you go away for a few hours, and suddenly there's 10 pages of activity that is almost impossible to keep up with, in some respects.

There are so many pages for video games that start with "The" that you could fill an entire page of a namespace index with them. Check here and here.

Pages that start with "The" are the bane of my existence because they make the T's of any section such a slog during wick cleaning.

How would you alphabetise them anyway? Do you organise them including the "The", or not?

Without the "the", for example The Legend of Zelda would go under L